I like this one. XP had many things going for it. That bliss wallpaper which is the most recognizable photo ever made. Just think about that. The first pirated release, the key used.. It got so much publicity. People knew it by heart. Plus the ads in media. Nowadays there is no hype, no enjoyment, everything is just so plain, so average.
Yes. I think it's curios the name was given as it is. Clever choice of letters, don't you think? I think this key was given by Microsoft, somehow they knew this is increase the popularity of their product and allowed it to be so.
Using the key during the installation causes to warnings about piracy. Because the key is blocked by Microsoft due to leak. Also that's not the only blocked key. There're about 353 pages of blocked keys. PM me if you want to see the more of these keys. @NonverbalMel, Also thank you for the link. It also has SP1a and SP2b versions that I can use them for my experiments.
The only non-blocked Corp. key that I know is for Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition SP2 x86. I think that's because the Datacenter Edition was not released for Retail Channels that allowed me to skip product keys during the installation for 2600.5512 and 3790.3959.
Yes, the FCKGW one (that group of letters in only associated with windows ZP, but I might be getting in confused with another one…) ;-)
I never got the part where the key is written on the CD. For example in Wiindows XP, do you eject the CD in order to input the product key? Wouldn't that affect the setup, in some way?
Yes, You can login in Windows Vista/7, however personalization and wallpaper changing is disabled. Windows 8 removes unchangeable black-wallpaper, however you can't personalize start screen and other metro features. Also a screen reminding to activate Windows shows up randomly which can cause people to rage, especially when they're gaming. Windows 10/11 is equal to Windows 8 except for the blue activate Windows screen. Watermark is transparent. In Windows XP/2003 it doesn't let me login, an error message appears. If you refuse to activate Windows, then it makes you logoff back.
No, how I did it was: 1) run setup all the way to the point where it asks for key 2) eject CD and input key 3) insert CD, wait for it to spin up 4) click Next 5) have fun. the reason this works is because setup is literally doing nothing other than waiting for some user input. Even if you omit step 3 and just hit next, setup would need to copy files or otherwise access the CD so you’d get prompted to insert the disk.
At this point theyre practically giving it away . It kind of reminds me of the infinite 40-day trial of WinRAR!
Well, at least Microsoft doesn't care too much anymore. Otherwise anything related to something like hacking to their product would be taken away. Especially my ConvertNT5SKUs which aims to convert Windows SKUs on 2000/XP/2003 would be taken away so early. Even leaked Windows XP/2K3 source code is still up on many websites.
Wow! I wonder if we’ll ever see the full source of all XP editions and service packs? Also the source code to XP being out is kind of scary because critical things still use XP (e.g. a good bulk of the US military still uses it as do plenty of CashPoint machines here in the US, And medical devices like x-ray machines and MRI scanners) so again kind of neat when i heard about it but kind of scary once you find out how much critical stuff runs on XP and similar (including a lot of my health and safety systems) thus backup, backup, and backup again along with being behind a few routers and never letting critical machines on the internet. And for me it’s all in VMs now anyway thus for me, it’s all in a bubble of sorts.